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Re:Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. f... by google234123 on Friday June 26, 2020 @02:34PM (#23655331)
The stock market isn't the same thing...
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Re:Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. f... by greenshackle2 on Friday June 26, 2020 @04:05PM (#23656353)
To spell it out:

The stock market is anti-inductive by design. Statistical patterns that reflect market inefficiencies are supposed to disappear over time.

Most problems are not anti-inductive.

So yeah, "you can't even predict the stock market with your methods" is a pretty terrible argument against methods that were never meant to predict the stock market.

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